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Founded Since 1850

Company Description

EIT Food accelerates innovation to build a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all.

About EIT Food

Supported by the EU, we lead the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community. We create connections right across the food system that stimulate new ideas and inventions to drive change.

Who we are

We believe inclusive systems innovation, which enables all people and places to participate and benefit, is essential to a strong food system that is better for everyone. With teams on the ground across Europe, we bridge the gap between countries and regions with low innovation capacity and those leading the way. And we put consumers at the heart of our work, helping build trust by reconnecting them to the origins of their food, directly involving them in the innovation process, and working with the food sector to increase transparency.

Collaboration is central to all our work, which spans the whole food value chain, and is vital to meet the big challenges we face. Together with our community, we will build an innovative and resilient food system that in turn creates a healthier society and planet.

What We Do

We invest in projects, individuals and organisations that share our goals to deliver positive impact at speed and scale.

We connect stakeholders right across the food system to drive change through collective learning, problem solving and invention.

We focus on inclusive systems innovation, which enables all people and places to participate and benefit.

Innovation

We guide and accelerate food innovation to transform the food system. We focus on inclusive systems innovation, which enables all people and places to participate and benefit.

Education

We are attracting, developing and empowering bright minds to lead the transformation of the food system into an innovative sector that produces healthy and sustainable food, and is trusted by society.

Entrepreneurship

Startups play a fundamental role in transforming the food system. EIT Food supports innovative impactful agrifood entrepreneurs and startups to deliver new food innovations and businesses across Europe.

Public engagement

We believe that we are all responsible for, and connected to, the food that we eat, so we all need to work together to improve it. Our activities are designed to engage with people so that they can become agents of change in the food…

Our objectives

At EIT Food, our mission is to transform how food is produced, distributed, and consumed and to increase its value to European society. We will achieve this by solving the biggest innovation challenges through trusted industry, education and research partners working together with informed and engaged citizens.

We will achieve this through our strategic objectives:

Educate to engage, innovate and advance

Providing ‘food system’ skills for students, entrepreneurs and professionals through advanced training programmes

Enhance sustainability through resource stewardship

Developing solutions to transform the traditional ‘produce-use-dispose’ model into a circular bio-economy

Catalyse food entrepreneurship and innovation

Fostering innovation at all stages of business creation

Build a consumer-centric connected food system

Developing a digital food supply network with consumers and industry as equal partners

Create consumer-valued food for healthier nutrition

Enabling individuals to make informed and affordable personal nutrition choices

Overcome low consumer trust

Supporting European citizens in the transition towards a smart food system that is inclusive and reassuring

“By bringing all players together, we are building a shared vision for the future of food, and a shared agenda to transform it and make it better.”

Contact us

EIT FOOD

Ubicenter A Philipssite 5 /34
Leuven (3001 Heverlee)
Belgium

EIT Food